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Thursday, 26 January 2017

Make your mind up!

Sometimes it is better to make a decision, even a bad
decision, than to decide nothing at all. The limbo of dither holds glory for
nobody. Rather than be a sitting duck, awaiting certain death at an uncertain
time, better to fly into the jaws of fate with a chance that fate may be caught
napping and you get to quack another day. It is a feature of humans that for
all our big brain power we are often remarkably slow to learn such things.

The leap of faith that launches stratospheric success can
also plunge the jumper into penury, but at least it’s living. Sitting, waiting,
even demanding that somebody, anybody-but-you, does something is a fool’s
fantasy. Take a chance, buy that lottery ticket, apply for that job you
secretly feel under-qualified for, start that business, jump out of that plane,
streak naked down Oxford Street... roll those dice. If necessary roll the dice
to decide which way to jump, but for pity’s sake, jump!

What Donald Trump has done – at least on the surface – is
dismantle in just a week, all the inactivity of the Obama years. Some of his
decisions will reap rewards and some will be simply catastrophic but guess
what, the blood is pumping. The USA is alive with tingling expectation or spasms
of dread, but it has a pulse again after many dormant years. The pulling
together which happened after 9/11 was quickly dissipated as the failed liberal-left
project to neuter the world turned unity and pride into shame and inaction.
Well, the boot is back on the other foot.

Kennedy said “Ask not what my country can do for me...”
for in truth that way lies indolence and weakness. But Trump is saying “What
can I do for my country?” and he is asking it out loud with deeds as well as
fancy words. Will he be a great president? Will he be a disaster? We won’t really
know for years, possibly decades, but right now he is the man in the big chair
and all the mewling and puking of the infant malcontents of the destructive and
unruly left won’t change that very soon. While he has executive powers he’s shown
he’s going to use them.

Whatever you think of the man, however much you need to
believe he is where he is from sheer luck, however much you hope to see him
fall, the reality is he’s not afraid to ‘just do it’. Maybe, instead of
shrinking, horrified, from even attempting to take a lesson from the
ginger-mopped monster you could try it some time? Actually, for once, instead
of choosing a side that makes you feel warm and fuzzy but ultimately achieves
nothing, you could decide to do something; something for yourself, something
better than taking to the streets chanting pointless slogans.

Who are you looking at?

Hey, you might
fail, but you already failed yourself and wasted your potential if you didn’t
give it a go. While the mob is making a mess you could make a success. Trainspotting
2 opens very soon and as much as Ewan McGregor’s recent anti-Trump sentiments may
have fed your fear, Renton’s opening speech in the original movie inspired a generation
twenty years ago: “Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a
family... Choose your future. Choose life.” Choose. Try it. What have you got to lose?